‘Biafra’ is a Business Venture – MEND

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) yesterday de­scribed as scam the ac­tivities of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), stressing that the ‘Biafra republic’ struggle was a mere business venture to deceive the people of the South East.

A statement released by the Spokesperson of the group, Jomo Gbo­mo, on Monday dis­closed that IPOB Lead­er, Nnamdi Kanu, has agreed secretly to re­nounce his involvement in the Biafra struggle in exchange for his free­dom from prison.

It disclosed further that the Federal Gov­ernment and MEND want Kanu to prove his sincerity by publicly renouncing his mem­bership of the seces­sionist struggle as part of efforts to resolve the Niger Delta militancy which has wreaked hav­oc on oil facilities.

MEND’s statement reads, “The attention of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has been drawn to the recent spate of hypo­critical and provocative statements issued by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, which purport to disso­ciate IPOB/Kanu from some of the concessions which have so far been secured by MEND in the ongoing talks aimed at resolving the current Niger Delta crisis be­tween the Federal Gov­ernment and MEND.

“MEND hereby uses this opportunity to in­form the entire world that following the group’s ongoing nego­tiations with the Federal Government, Nnamdi Kanu has made it clear that he is willing to re­nounce Biafra in secret in exchange for his free­dom.

“MEND and the Fed­eral Government have however, flatly rejected the IPOB/Kanu hypoc­risy to remain defiant in public while accepting to secretly renounce se­cession.”